Cortana News (Coming from the inside) (OP being updated)

[TruPlaya187]

First I heard of this so I tried it out. How does it know where your car is if you didn't mark its location? I did what you said and it showed my car 2.1 mi away. (It's actually about 100yds away.). Glad I knew better.

Well once you have park you car, open the app, then wait for it to locate you precisely, then select the option Find my car. Keep an eye on the map and check if the location is ok then save it.

I used it a couple of times in a big mall parking lot and I would say that 95% it was precise. Now let's not forget that this part of the HERE drive app is still in beta.

Maybe try it a couple of times and see the results. I will test it again today.

 

[acrodex]

Well once you have park you car, open the app, then wait for it to locate you precisely, then select the option Find my car. Keep an eye on the map and check if the location is ok then save it.

I used it a couple of times in a big mall parking lot and I would say that 95% it was precise. Now let's not forget that this part of the HERE drive app is still in beta.

Maybe try it a couple of times and see the results. I will test it again today.

Thanks for the tip, I will try it later today. Yeah, I think it is a perfect task for a digital assistant.

 

[antonius138]

Talderon,

Anything to elaborate on from Joe's reddit this morning? Cortana was mentioned a few times...

 

[hopmedic]

Is there a way to change the time that Cortana thinks I need to be at work? I'm salary, so I don't get too concerned, but there were several days of bad traffic after updating, and now she thinks I need to be at work 20 minutes after I really should be at work. :wink:

 

[Moiz Mian]

One thing that would be really cool, is if Cortana could set reminders or notifications on windows 8. For example, "Cortana, remind me to pay my bill next time I log in to my computer. That would be so helpful. What do you think Talderon?

 

[MadSci2]

In regards to my question about getting Cortland to place reminders and events on the calendar I choose, I found it does work and how to make it work. I started a thread on this here:

http://forums.windowscentral.com/co...rtana-adds-appointments-reminders-solved.html

The answers are simple, and were discovered by two other forum members, who are credited within the Thread.

 

[tomcox76]

hopefully it will be able to access 3rd party calanders such as Chronos which I have come to really like

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[Rasetech]

App developers need to provide functionality to Cortana. Same for calendar apps.

 

[Kronus24]

BUMP!!!! I wouldn't want Talderon to forget to post the lastest news because he wasnt able to find this post

 

[Akhilesh Bhambhani]

Amazing thread.

 

[antonius138]

Crap I hope they didn't think he was leaking info....

 

[hopmedic]

Crap I hope they didn't think he was leaking info....

No, he was not leaking anything. He plainly stated that he was only posting what he was allowed to post, and even went so far in one post to say not to PM him asking for more, because satisfying our curiosity is not worth his job. He's right there, you know? :wink:

 

[jevans911]

Is there a timetable on updating the teams listed under sports interest in Cortana? I'm particularly interested in NCAA football teams. I realize that football season is still a few mo months off, but I'm curious regardless...

 

[ven07]

Is there a timetable on updating the teams listed under sports interest in Cortana? I'm particularly interested in NCAA football teams. I realize that football season is still a few mo months off, but I'm curious regardless...

Hopefully this will be solved with GDR1, but for now there is no timetable, but it should be before summer of that I'm sure lol

 

[antonius138]

No, he was not leaking anything. He plainly stated that he was only posting what he was allowed to post, and even went so far in one post to say not to PM him asking for more, because satisfying our curiosity is not worth his job. He's right there, you know? :wink:

Yeah I know, I saw his original post...just was poking fun that he has been quiet and I for one have been spoiled with the updates.

 

[bitwise]

Ok this thread is nice and all but the glaring problem that is not being addressed here is... time line.

All the changes, all the developments dont matter if its not available. I am a software engineer myself so I do understand the concept of development life cycles but for something like this, availability is the key to getting more people using it.

Its also a question of where is it available. Right now its US only and it'll take some time before it gets releases to other countries. And for the love of god, why release it first in china when WP market share there is small. There are many other Asian countries with bigger WP adoption, why alienate those people?

Generally, I think MS sucks on this. They know they are very late in the game and yet they still take ages rolling out updates/new features. And they are too US centric.

 

[Rasetech]

The question with China was already discussed somewhere and it seems that the availability strongly depends on Bing and Bing has its own department in China which provides a lot of Chinese localized stuff which is the base for Cortana.

In Europe for example specially in Austria Bing is missing a lot of features which are already available in other countries.

 

[Jaskys]

Wow Esports features? Sounds pretty cool as i am a big fan of Counter Strike Global offensive scene

 

[hopmedic]

Ok this thread is nice and all but the glaring problem that is not being addressed here is... time line.

He said in one post that he is not allowed to give dates. Can't blame him for not doing so.

 

[Kronus24]

Bump this! We haven't heard anything this WHOLE month I need my fix. lol